Re: Official Puro Results/Spoilers Discussion Thread (BEWARE OF THE SPOILERS)

Lyger,KUSHIDA/Sakuraba,Shibata *** Okada,HASHI/Ishii,Nakamura ***1/2 Okada,Nakamura/Kondo,Suwara ***1/2 Was impressed with Kondo & Suwara. Watched the Okada/Nakamura match from G1 and really enjoyed it, that and their interaction in the tag match makes me very eager to see another match between them.

Re: Official Puro Results/Spoilers Discussion Thread (BEWARE OF THE SPOILERS)

You mean Suwama?

Btw...

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Dave Meltzer just tweeted the following

- Akiyama, Shiozaki, Aoki, Kanemaru and Kotaro Suzuki will show up Saturday at the All Japan show in Tokyo that Flair is on.
- Flair didn't know he was wrestling against Fujinami until this afternoon. Was thrilled, loves the guy.

Magnifico.

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Takaaki Kidani today announced his resignation as Chairman of the Board of New Japan. Rumours had been circulating for a while about his future after his decision to bring in Laughter7 turned out to be an unpopular one within the company. Kidani said he would continue to support New Japan from his post at Bushiroad but will no longer play a direct role in things. Kidani said he believes any hint of New Japan’s “Dark Age” came to an end on January 4th when 29,000 fans paid for a ticket, the largest in many years, and is excited by the future progress of the company.

President Sugabayashi held a presentation with Nakamura in attendance to discuss to global strategy of New Japan. New Japan wants to become better known around the world and the recent iPPVs are just part of the plan. Nakamura said he plans to defend his increasingly valuable IWGP Intercontinental Title around the world if possible to give it a true international feel and continue to differentiate it from the IWGP Heavyweight Title. Shinsuke talked of going to strange places such as the Amazon of Brazil or even North Korea to defend the title!

An English language version of New Japan’s official site will launch in April, giving the same information to English speaking people as Japanese. Spanish and Chinese versions of the site are also under development. Since 2001, I have run Strong Style Spirit and as far as I have seen it has been the only site in English solely focused on New Japan. New Japan did launch a Facebook in English but is now taking the next step of developing a full website. It’s quite possible the website may make this site obsolete, in which case perhaps my site will have outserved it’s purpose of providing information of the world’s best wrestling organization to people in English. If that is the case, for the first time I may have to consider it’s future but for now nothing will change and I fully support New Japan’s decision to launch a site that can reach more people than Strong Style Spirit.

Finally, New Japan announced some key dates for the next year including “WRESTLE KINGDOM VIII” back at the Tokyo Dome next January.

[NOAH/Kenta Kobashi Update] Kenta Kobashi held a special press conference at the Pro Wrestling NOAH office to make it official that he will be holding his final match on May 11th. The show will be a joint production between Kobashi and NOAH.

This is an update to the original to original announcement that Kobashi would be looking to retire in February. I cannot remember off of the top of my head if I touched on it or not, I assume I did, but just in case I'll mention it again.
It seems that Kobashi will need a few more months than originally planned to prepare for his final match. He says that his neck is doing better, and that he wants to spend February to April training and preparing for the upcoming match. He wants to take his time in training and he is not looking to rush things.
Kobashi is lookng to retire in the Nippon Budokan as the hall means a lot to his career and means a lot to pro wrestling.
Kobashi has not decided on what will take place for his final match, but he looks to have the show be almost like a festival with more than just 1 match to look forward to seeing.

TV shows are the best entertainment programmes like wrestling. My favourite TV show is RAW and SMACK DOWN. I specially like fight of Rey mysterio and Randy Ortan. It was very amazing fight with lots of stunt.

TV shows are the best entertainment programmes like wrestling. My favourite TV show is RAW and SMACK DOWN. I specially like fight of Rey mysterio and Randy Ortan. It was very amazing fight with lots of stunt.

TV shows are the best entertainment programmes like wrestling. My favourite TV show is RAW and SMACK DOWN. I specially like fight of Rey mysterio and Randy Ortan. It was very amazing fight with lots of stunt.